Nick you answered the most common questions, but what was the best question you've been asked about the surf ranch?

Roughly 5 minutes between waves does my head in. That kills almost all commercial applications.

Nobody's asked me a really great question about it yet. I think because it's all so new to us, everyone just wants to know basic stuff.

And yeah, this isn't a Retail Surf Experience at all. I'm sure they'll step up the interval a bit over time with re-designs etc, but the pay per wave thing is not the game with this pool at all, never was. I think pay per wave is a silly idea really, just nowhere near enough custom. Selling yearly memberships to well-off Americans with a guaranteed number of days, discounts on Slater boards, etc, as part of a business plan that included CTs, accommodation franchises, pool sales etc, you can see that working for a while.

I asked Noah Grimmett, who is basically the overseer of the project and has been with it the whole time, if there was a moment he thought the pool would never happen, and he said yes. They worked on it for nearly 10 years, surfing technology from USC and other places and hand building parts when they couldn't get them. They built a series of models and got one to work, then built a full size dummy run, and it didn't work. Finally, Kelly was pretty much done with it; it's never gonna happen, he said to Noah and the team, we've spent millions, maybe we should just pull the plug now before we waste any more money. They convinced him they could fix the issues and suggested he just go away and not think about it for a while, put it out of his mind and come back in six months. When he came back, they pulled a wave for him, and his reaction is what you saw in that first video of the Pool, the one they released at the end of 2015, where he's laughing and clapping his hands. It's not staged, it's real.

I asked Noah Grimmett, who is basically the overseer of the project and has been with it the whole time, if there was a moment he thought the pool would never happen, and he said yes. They worked on it for nearly 10 years, surfing technology from USC and other places and hand building parts when they couldn't get them. They built a series of models and got one to work, then built a full size dummy run, and it didn't work. Finally, Kelly was pretty much done with it; it's never gonna happen, he said to Noah and the team, we've spent millions, maybe we should just pull the plug now before we waste any more money. They convinced him they could fix the issues and suggested he just go away and not think about it for a while, put it out of his mind and come back in six months. When he came back, they pulled a wave for him, and his reaction is what you saw in that first video of the Pool, the one they released at the end of 2015, where he's laughing and clapping his hands. It's not staged, it's real.

Yeah!

Thanks.
I'm far more interested in the how and why than the thing itself.

NC,
After this weeks personal acceptance of your mortality thanks to the exceptional big wave events that were experienced , are you sure you didn't avail yourself to the services of the water safety crew in the waste water settlement pond.